"new york times" interview. >> it was very interesting. we talked about adoption. >> you did. >> yeah. i always found interesting. he ended that years ago. and i actually talked about russian adoption with him, which is interesting. because that was a part of the conversation that don had in that meeting. >> that sounded bizarre then but it fits into this defense. adoption is the denial for the clinton meeting. the boss is back to denial. when he insists on denying the russia meeting with clinton when his son's e-mails demolish that claim, you can tell the compromise defense must be the best defense they have left. that's our show. "hardball" starts now. no wonder trump is scared. let's play "hardball."

good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. if you ever wonder why donald trump is afraid of special prosecutor bob mueller, listen to this. mueller just added a 16th lawyer to his investigation into the trump campaign's possible collusion with russia last year. according to reuters, it is a former justice department prosecutor. greg andrus was deputy assistant attorney general where he oversaw the fraud unit and managed the program targeted illegal foreign bribery. meanwhile, the white house continues to face questions over shifting statements about donald trump junior and jared kushner's meeting last sum we are a kremlin linked lawyer. back in march, he said he had no meetings with russians where he was representing the campaign in any way. then we found bout that june 26th meeting in trump tower with a story breaking, he put out a statement saying we primary discussed a program with the

adoption of russian children. left out the purpose of the meeting from trump's perspective was all about collecting damaging information about hillary clinton. it was what got the trump family in that room in the first place. within a day, the state from don junior was amended. he said he had a meeting with someone who promised helpful information prior to the campaign. then his e-mails came out. it turns out that don junior was told he was meeting with someone described as the russian government attorney. that weekend the president's attorney insisted the president wasn't involved in the drafting of his son's first misleading statement. >> did the president get a heads up on the statement? did he sign off on the statement? was he asked to read it before it was given to him on air force one? >> i can't say whether he was told the statement would come from his son. i don't have that information. the president, i do want to be clear. the president wasn't involved in

the drafting of the statement. >> yesterday, sarah huckabee sanders acknowledged the president was involved. can you verify degree to which the president was involved? >> he certainly didn't dictate. like i said, he weigh in the offered a suggestion like any father would do. >> like the helicopter dad. all the shifting statements, disinformation by the president's team. the big question for robert mueller, why all this information? the senior political reporter for usa today and john is a former federal prosecutor. thank you for coming on. it seems in these hirings, the recruitment of the top criminal lawyers, that this will be one large investigation. i won't be narrow. the it is going after donald trump's business involvements with russia. how it may have overlapped with his campaign for president. in fact, i get the sense it won't be limited to that. he will try to give donald trump

a full body frisk, and trump doesn't want anything like it. >> the lens of this investigation has to be as wide as possible, and it must include financial dealings. we know from public testimony before the judicial committee that the russian play book is to engage individual officials from other countries in financial dealings. so that issue is absolutely relevant to this investigation. and the team that robert mueller had assembled, in fact, the latest included, are battle tested, experienced prosecutors who have this kind of back ground in investigating foreign bribery, financial fraud, white collar crime, and following the money. that's the key. following the money. and knowing what the facts may be, behind the trump team's

financial dealings, including his son-in-law and his son in dealings with russia. >> it seems to me bob mueller, with his resume, perhaps the cap of his career is looking at potentially criminality. if i were mueller, i would not want to have case close in the two or three years and say this guy is clean as a hounds tooth and then find out there's something he missed. what is it? to make sure that nobody comes along later and says you missed something. >> he'll want to be as complete and comprehensive. what did the president know and when did he know it about that june 9 meeting involving his son and son-in-law and his campaign manager, which was done with the promise of dirt, financial and other information about hillary

clinton. now, what is important here is that the special counsel be protected from potential threats and intimidation, that would try to close that investigation, or draw lines. in fact, the president has tried to draw a line at his financial deegs. that's why a group of us, a bipartisan group is seeking to enact protective safeguards that would prohibit any firing of that special counsel, robert mueller, without a check. in fact, to include a check. to safeguard the independence and integrity. those conversations are ongoing, led by my colleague, senator lindsey graham, and we hope that it will conclude in some kind of protection for the special prosecutor. >> i'm going to let you go. we look at the new guy just hired, the new prosecutor, with experience with bribery cases.

now we know about trump is very jealous with anyone looking at his tax returns. should he get a court order, basically, what do you call it? going into a house somewhere. if he goes to get his tax returns, do you think will do that? or do you think he'll get him fired? >> a warrant, or a subpoena, should be enforceable. no question. that the courts should do it. and if donald trump really has nothing to hide, he'll comply voluntarily. but -- >> you say that with a straight face and you know donald trump doesn't want anyone seeing his tax returns. he's been icon bik that. nobody gets my tax returns. none of them. >> there's a likelihood that there will be a confrontation. and if there's a confrontation, if there is a threat to fire bob mueller, there will be a

firestorm of opposition on both sides of the aisle, here in the united states congress, and that's why we want to forestall that effort. and we're doing on it a bipartisan basis to adopt some protective measures, so that independence and integrity of that special prosecutor will be safeguarded by some kind of judicial review that will check that effort, if it comes. i hope it won't come. and i agree with you, chris, that we need to be realistic here, given what donald trump has done in the past. >> thank you so much. member of the senate judiciary committee. let me to go john who angst lot about this and then we'll to go heidi. tell me about bringing in a guy whose specialty has been bribery cases. if you're dealing with the russians all these years and you're donald trump, how many deals do you have to cook off the books to even deal with these terrible people? >> the reality is that mueller

has assembled an incredible group of skilled prosecutors, who have tried many, many cases around the country. they have over 3,000 federal laws they can choose from. they can take any business dispute and turn it into a federal crime. so it is not unusual that trump is very upset about this turn of events. you have an unlimited source of resources with the fbi. you have a prosecutor who has no limitations on what he can vehicle. i'm smocked the president's legal team is virtually defenseless. mueller is assembling one of the best criminal law firms in the country. >> he didn't mention what he also learned this past week, the testimony which was not paid attention to by bill browder, he was a client of sergy magnitsky. what he told the panel, was that the m.o. was to court you and recruit you through shady financial deals. and then a lot of that money, since they can't keep it in

russia, millions, billions is parked in the west. it is parked this shady real estate deals. they've already caught at least one of them. parking their money in high end manhattan real estate. >> how does that hide dirty money? if they have drug money, how do they get it? they buy a condo. they bring in cartons of money? >> that's a good question. i imagine there are safeguards through the banking system. red flags. they did apprehend in this one case this guy connected to putin. >> what do you think trump is worried about right now? >> when you see, he sees mueller going out and broadening his power base. this is an incredible law firm he's creating here. for one purpose torsion get trump. >> it's a get trump squad. he understands it. robert mueller has unlimited resources, unlimited federal crimes and no limits in terms of assume vision.

so he will fly speck every single transaction that donald trump and people around him, family members have done in the last several years and go looking for a federal crime. that's extraordinary. somebody who has a wide array of business dealings has to look at it and say my lord, anything i've done in the last 12, 15 years can be looked at as a federal crime. >> you handle the politics of this. i think trump is still quite capable of doing what he can to get rid of muler and make sure there are no more muellers after mueller. that means he has to get control of the justice department. >> given all the lying, and we will now at this point call it lying, given what we learned from this statement, it shows he thinks it is worth it. there's something worth it to be telling all these lies. so yeah. >> and to cap off a weird day in trump land, president trump under political pressure like he's never seen, signed a bill imposing new sanctions on russia.

he signed it behind closed doors. no press no, glory. 98-2, the house by 419-3. in the signing statement put out, the president blasted the bill he just signed. a little cozying up to putin. the bill remains seriously flawed, particularly because it enkroexs upon the executive branch's authority to negotiate. i built a truly great company worth many billions of dollars. that is a big part of reason i was elected as president. i can make far better deals with countries than congress. he always has to go back to that bragging. he said i am signing this for the sake of national unity. and the sleaziest fake news story of the year he? that's saying something. hit something to do with a totally bogus untrue story about a slain dnc staffer and what looks like an effort to take

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there's still more than 8,000 soldiers over there. and just today, two american troops were killed when their convoy came under attack. i guess trump is frustrated. we're all frustrated. he said no more stupid wars. we've been in afghanistan since 2001. when will we get out? >> that's his frustration, president obama's frustration, and basically what you're seeing is someone, the president who doesn't like any of the options. partly because there are no good options in afghanistan. and the challenges, you can, it is significantly increased u.s. presence there at a high cost. or you can completely withdraw. if you were to do that, afghanistan turns into a haven. >> so we can never have a permanent solution. we have to just stay. >> the current commander said he

could do more with 7,000 more troops. >> does anyone have a presence for getting out? >> there is. >> i think he had come from a meeting that he had with war veterans, and he felt they were saying a tim things about now nato was contributing. he felt like he wasn't getting the options that he wanted. china is. and why do we have to keep doing more? and so he was frustrated that he was not getting, hearing, getting to a point where they can learn the war. at one point, he turned to secretary mattis and said we're losing. i gave you authority. why is this happening? >> what is he going to do? where is this going? >> they're going to have a --

the president's advisers are going to meet tomorrow. the president isn't supposed to attend that meeting. they would like him to approve the strategy that they have all coalesced around. the president is wanting more answers and changes and tweaks. >> the daffy part, i would call it that, he seems to be against the wars and he seems to have a hunger for mineral wealth. like we'll bring it home in a big giant battle. and now we hear, another lure to staying in is afghanistan. >> it is complicated. to get the minerals, the country the way the u.s. hasn't been able to. and then it will cost money. you have to have workers there and access to get the minerals out. and so it is not as easy as it sounds. >> thanks. great reporting. up next, did the trump white house try on push one of the sleaziest fake news stories of

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in july of last year, a dnc staffer named seth rich was murdered in an apparent street robbery in washington. and some on the right began saying rich and not the russians was responsible for giving wikileaks the e-mails from the dnc. in february this year, a trump supporter hired a private eye named rod wheeler, supposedly to get to the truth. supposedly. he now says that he butowsky was using him. he is now suing in federal court, not just butowsky but fox news saying they fabricated reports that they attributed to him, wheeler. he has said that the report was revealed by trump himself before

it was altered and published. he said that quotes were included because that's the way the president wanted the article. and yesterday were sarah huckabee sanders said the president was not involved. >> the white house involvement in the story, beyond that, this is ongoing litigation and i would refer you to the actual parties involved. the president just read the article and he wants it out immediately. fox news has responded with the following statement. the accusation that fox news.com published malia zimmerman's story to help detract from coverage of the russia collusion issue is completely erroneous. it is still being investigated internally and we have no evidence that rod wheeler was misquoted by zimmerman. joining me from politico and

from "vanity fair." explain how horrible this indecency seems to be, to take someone who died in the streets of washington, in an apparent street crime. that's horrible. and then to try to smear the lost person in the face of the parents with a charge he had something 22nd stealing dnc documents and putting they will out and getting the russians to take the blame for it. an absurd story. >> the allegations in this lawsuit are shocking and really, shows what lengths possibly the trump white house went to to concoct a fake news story to distract from the russia scandal. this shows fox news has become the media article of the trump white house. and ed butowsky, the wealthy trump surrogate, financed this apparent fake news story that he then as this lawsuit alleges, coached them how to frame the

story and push it out the fox's viewers. so this is an inside look. this lawsuit. the allegations within it provide an inside look into how a fake news story gets created. >> is this butowsky ever going to face a lie detector or cross-examination so they can get some of the truth out of him? somebody can make up a story. when you're a kid, you make up stories. it is called story telling. but you have to be held to account when you're maliciously smearing someone who is dead this lawsuit says that this was fabricated. as you said, it was a stunning lawsuit -- >> who rewrote it? who came out with new quotes in. >> wheeler alleges that butowsky and zimmerman were the ones who created this. and wheeler even has recordings of a phone conversation between himself and the fox reporter where she seems to acknowledge that he did not actually stay quotes that were attributed to

him. >> how does someone acknowledge that i'm not quoting accurately? >> she claims, they did quote him accurately on the other quotes. >> that's the defense. >> he said that he and butowsky met with sean spicer in april of this year, and provided him with a company of his investigative notes. yet just one month later, spicer denied having any knowledge the of story. here's sean. >> i'm not aware of -- i generally, i don't get updates on dnc, former dnc staffers. i'm not aware of that. >> spicer now confirms that the meeting did take place. gabe? >> yeah. i was going to point that out, that again is another instance in which this white house has been caught in an apparent lie. and their denials have been completely debunked and we know from this lawsuit that ed butowsky and rod wheeler met with spicer and they allegedly discussed the status of the fake

news story and how it might benefit the trump white house by distracting from the russia scandal. to me, as a report er covering all these stories, if they're being exposed on this detail, which other denials should we not take seriously in. >> he said butowsky e-mailed fox producers saying one of the big conclusions we need to draw from this is that the russians did not hack our computer systems and steal e-mails and there was to collusion like trump with the russians. and here's how fox reported the story the next morning. >> for a long time, on the internet and elsewhere, he has been rumored to have been the one who gave wikileaks the dnc e-mails. so if that is true, and we don't know yet, it looks like russia didn't give to it wikileaks. it was seth rich, perhaps. >> seth rich. so there they are. i'm not a media critic. to me it just rivals, i don't

like to dump on they will. but there he is repeating the words that we know that came from this guy butowsky. they spoon fed a story which was picked up verbatim, blaming this dead kid, this dead staffer, for what the russians did. >> and what is unthe fortunate is that the story was retracted. once you have something on tv like, that it is hard to pull it back. we don't know whether fox news has done anything internally. >> who fed that to him? who put in his mouth? >> what we know is that ed butowsky interviewed personally -- >> who is this guy willing to go whole hog in a lie? why is he so committed to donald trump he is willing to put his whole being of dishonesty? thought behind a totally made up terrible indecent attack on someone who died? >> as he wealthy texas based financial manager and kind of a conservative gad fly. he is often on a talk radio show

and he is very friendly in the fox news world other fox news personalities. so he's been on the margin of trump world since the campaign. >> this is a terrible story. this rivals the stuff, joe mccarthy's era. have you no decency? any way, thank you. great work here. a terrible story. up next, steven miller goes to war. this is a guy, talking about, this guy outrivals trump with his id, his personality unmasked by any kind of stoppage. he calls the reporter ignorant. i have a theory. trump is throwing red meat into the cage. so you miss the big city? i don't miss much... definitely not the traffic. excuse me, doctor... the genomic data came in. thank you. you can do that kind of analysis? yeah, watson. i can quickly analyze millions of clinical and scientific reports to help you tailor treatment options for the patient's genomic profile.

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the dow above the very important 22,000 milestone for the first time ever. back to "hardball." welcome back to "hardball." the trump team going back to basics, tossing red meat to the conservative base. first that complete ban on transgender ban suing in the military. and then affirmative action policy that's may hurt white applicants. this afternoon, it was legal immigration. you can say he briefed about the republican support for completion would tighten legal immigration to the u.s. miller who has a history of antagonizing the media had a heated exchange with the cnn white house reporter. catch this. >> right now -- >> it is actually -- >> about a sweeping change -- >> surely, jim, you don't

actually think that a wall affects green card policy. you couldn't possibly believe that, do you? >> actually the notion that you think immigration is at an historic low. the united states today -- jim, jim. >> i want to be serious. do you really at cnn not know the difference between green card policy and illegal immigration? you really don't know that? >> he came to this country 1962 right before the cuban missile crisis and obtained a green card. yes. >> so jim -- >> as a factual -- as a factual -- >> obtain a green card at some point. they do it through hard work and they may learn english as a second language later in life. this whole notion, they have to learn english before they get to the united states. are we going to bring in people there great britain and australia? >> that's one of the most outrageous, insulting, ignorant

and foolish things you've ever said. and for you, that's a really -- the notion that you think that this is a racist bill is so wrong and so insulting. >> anyway, it certainly seems like trump and the white house are trying to get back to basics. politically, i am joined by the roundtable reporter. the white house reporter for politico. and for the guardian. it looks to me like i'm looking at the line-up of excitement. they're going after reverse discrimination so-called at the university level. they're talking about legal immigration, and transgender people affecting 0.000 of the population. it all says, we love you, trump, you're a real tough customer. you don't like the people we don't like. >> one of the truest things is this is what the people voted for. >> red meat. >> today's exchange was extraordinary.

steven miller literally questioned whether or not the poem inspired on the statue of liberty was something actually a mission of the country. whether we actually want to bring people who are weary. what they're doing is saying, we're going back to the basics and give you what we said. and we won't even try to hold our tongues and say we're trying to be egalitarian. >> it goes back to the beginning. half this country spoke german as well as english. german was a really big language. we weren't all english speakers. >> the fireworks in the briefing, the audience isn't just trump. it is an audience of a base that's scared of immigrants and they see yelling with cnn and "the new york times" and they think it is going well. >> i think he was playing to one audience. mr. trump. trump loved that explosion of id. he just lost scaramucci. he has to fill hole. >> and think about the context. in recent weeks, trump spent a

lot of time on sessions. and jeff sessions is the godfaert of these anti-immigrant proposals. the he was also the architect of that first travel ban that got caught up in the courts. so ann coulter we know was at the white house last week berks rating trump for forgetting about the base. so these steps have been taken to throw red meat. >> tell us about the possibility that all of this, the ignorant media, if a person, a man or woman, watching, a trump voter. they're thinking, yeah, that's the guy i voted for. and he's thinking, i have to keep that number around 40. it is slipping. if i'm going on get anything done. >> there's a lot of talk about approval ratings. his base is sticking with him. these are the policies. and i was talking, they were saying this is not just trump. the republican party was about this idea that you have to

challenge whether or not white people are in some ways being discriminated against. trying to reset, trying to pass civil rights issues and trying to really go after civil rights. whether or not that is hurting middle class white american who's are watching trump and voting for trump and saying we want to be taken care of. some people thought the country is going in a direction that's leading behind white people. >> the reargument was that these schools like berkeley, you're graded based on your numbers in school. a lot of kids, asian-american kids, are getting great grades and that's why harder to get into these schools. >> we don't know if these policy there's come to fruition. to reduce immigration by half does not have support even by half the republicans in congress. it doesn't. >> in congress. the people in the trump world itself though, they like this. >> that's what is important. this shows you how you the white house thinks about these core issues. the very nationalist theme.

the thematic world view that propelled trump to where he is. the bannon-miller wing showing its influence. >> i don't think trump would ever get on television and say to some ethnic group, you're all ignorant. but he has no problem saying the press is ignorant. as group. >> the base is not going to be enough. the approval rating sare in the 30s. we see republican -- we see republican senators more and more being willing to speak out against him. to disagree. to say we're moving from thirk disagree with him about his position on sessions. they're not scared of him. more and more. that's telling. >> you reporters will all say i can't take a vote. if he escapes mueller, four years from now, when it comes time to run for re-election, will he win? >> i think he can completely

win. can he win? >> yes. a second term. >> no good democratic challenger. >> it depends on democrats. >> two terms, one term, or full term? this guy is an act we have never seen before. i would bet on mueller right now. the round table is sticking with us, and i think trump is betting on him too, and that's why he wants to get rid of him. president trump says the white house is a dump. we'll show you how betty davis says it. prevagen helps your brain and actually improves memory. the secret is an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory.

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>> how is your foot? >> fine. what a dump. >> what a dump. that was the classic bette davis line. >> the 1949 classic, beyond the forest. it seems donald trump is now echoing the famous line in that movie. according to an article that appeared in the "sports illustrated" in golf magazine, donald trump reportedly told his golf club buddies, that white house is a real dump. when asked about those comments, the white house did not issue an outright denial to nbc today. instead a spokesman said, the president has been quoted on the record describing how proud he is to live in the white house and how incredibly luxurious it is. for an example in the new york times, the beautiful residence, it is very elegant. what do you make of this?

i don't think the american people like to hear the president dumping on the white house. >> i think people realize that he's a flashy billionaire who has a very high bar. five star. and i don't know how much this hurts him. they already knew that they were voting for someone who had his own plane. >> doesn't this quote, even some back ground and maybe it happened or not, ring totally true with what we think he thinks? he hasn't been back to trump tower penalty house. what he adores. on the record, we know he doesn't like air force one sfs his private plane. he doesn't like camp david as much as mar-a-lago. it is not a great thing to say but the reason it is resonating is because it feels like it maxes what we know. >> look at all those people, nancy reagan took heat for new

silverware, flatware. and jackie kennedy said it is so hard to finld good help in washington. and here he is saying it is not quite up to my standards. >> with trump, there is this exception where he gets away with making statements completely out of touch. he refers to himself as a man made man. the presidency isn't all that he thought it would be, that it is not as easy as he thought. that he had so much going for him in his life before he took oath of office. and expressed his disappointment with the realities of the job. he often portrays himself being above the presidency. i think this does offer a window into how he views the office that he holds. >> i think the people who voted for him climbed of like this personality. >> frank sinatra. he tells it like it is.

>> i want to ask you, it seems to me that kellyanne and a few others, ivanka because of blood, are except from trump's regular purges, firing, firing, he has never said you're fired to a woman so far. >> we just had a mass exodus of a lot of top male aides from the west wing. the women are quietly rising. sarah sanders moved up. dina powell is now a national security adviser. she came in as adviser to ivanka. she was on the short list. kellyanne, am rosa, these people. they're not as someone in my article said. there's a lot of reason ideas women aren't under the chopping block like men are. >> the "access hollywood."

it is a little ironic that the women are surviving in an administration -- >> your thoughts? >> i think there's been a degree to which the women have not been as involved. priebus and spicer versus bannon and scaramucci. and then there's looking at loyalty. something that trump values. something to be said for kellyanne, early supporters. priebus viewed with skepticism. he values the performance of someone like kellyanne on television. it doesn't matter what she might be saying, how inane or misleading. >> kellyanne, as you mentioned, has done some of these wild swan dive statements, too. >> there aren't as many women in high profile positions for him to fire and they aren't really

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>> anthony weiner will be a chapter. annie? >> i'll stay on the book topic. the much anticipated hillary clinton what happened to him. she doesn't just take the predictable shots at comey. she has a lot to say about bernie sanders's behavior in the primary is what i've been told by people who have seen it. >> is she going to knock him out of the next race? >> we'll see. >> steven miller say tacking the elitist media. stephen miller is leaning to liberal leaning family in santa monica and went on to attend duke university. he turned to conservatism when he read the 1994 book "guns, crime and freedom." while at duke, he wrote for the paper there. that's where he really made public his nationalist views, likening at one point multiculturalism to segregation. >> anyway, i just love it. let me finish tonight with trump watch. you're watching "hardball."

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trump watch. august 2nd, 2017. i'm coming to the full realization why donald trump has decided to bring down the investigation of special counsel bob mueller. mueller isn't just investigating the russian connection, he is investigating donald trump. he is not going to end his probing until he is convinced trump has been totally legit in

his business dealings, totally legit in his campaign for president, and totally legit in any relation between the two. mueller doesn't mean to end his investigation until he is convinced trump is clean on all counts. and the last thing bob mueller wants is to end his probe and then have someone else discover impropriety on trump's part. again, mueller can't end this investigation until he is solid trump is clean as a houndstooth. when do you think that will be? special counsels don't narrow their scope of investigations that. >> broaden them. archibald cox was coming for richard nixon when he god fired. lawrence walsh went after irangate for nine years before giving up on catching the first president bush. ken starr hopped from whitewater to paula jones and from her to monica lewinsky. they don't take these jobs only so they can end up calling it quits and giving their guy the good housekeeping seal of approval. and somehow, i don't think that's what donald trump has been spending his adult life doing his darnedest to win.

bottom line, trump's right to fear bob mueller. and the last thing trump wantsis a top to bottom audit, tax returns and all. anyone who thinks that hasn't been paying much attention. that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "all in with chris hayes" starts right now. tonight on "all in" -- >> this competitive application process will favor applicants who can speak english. >> a downward spiral continues, and a presidency in crisis plays the hits. >> the notion that you think this is a racist bill is so wrong and so insulting. >> tonight new record low poll numbers for the president. and today's attempt to halt the slide with an anti-immigration barrage. >> that is one of the most outrageous, insulting, ignorant and foolish things you've ever said. plus, new russian sanctions signed into law against the president's will. >>